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      $req->cancel; # cancel request if still in queue
      my $grp = aio_group sub { print "all stats done\n" };
      add $grp aio_stat "..." for ...;
-     # AnyEvent integration
+     # AnyEvent integration (EV, Event, Glib, Tk, urxvt, pureperl...)
      open my $fh, "<&=" . IO::AIO::poll_fileno or die "$!";
      my $w = AnyEvent->io (fh => $fh, poll => 'r', cb => sub { IO::AIO::poll_cb });
+     # EV integration
+     my $w = EV::io IO::AIO::poll_fileno, EV::READ, \&IO::AIO::poll_cb;
      # Event integration
      Event->io (fd => IO::AIO::poll_fileno,
                 poll => 'r',
                 cb => \&IO::AIO::poll_cb);
               }
            };
     aio_close $fh, $callback->($status)
         Asynchronously close a file and call the callback with the result
-        code. *WARNING:* although accepted, you should not pass in a perl
+        code.
-        filehandle here, as perl will likely close the file descriptor
-        another time when the filehandle is destroyed. Normally, you can
-        safely call perls "close" or just let filehandles go out of scope.
-        This is supposed to be a bug in the API, so that might change. It's
+        Unfortunately, you can't do this to perl. Perl *insists* very
-        therefore best to avoid this function.
+        strongly on closing the file descriptor associated with the
+        filehandle itself.
+        Therefore, "aio_close" will not close the filehandle - instead it
+        will use dup2 to overwrite the file descriptor with the write-end of
+        a pipe (the pipe fd will be created on demand and will be cached).
+        Or in other words: the file descriptor will be closed, but it will
+        not be free for reuse until the perl filehandle is closed.
     aio_read $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval)
     aio_write $fh,$offset,$length, $data,$dataoffset, $callback->($retval)
         Reads or writes $length bytes from the specified $fh and $offset
         into the scalar given by $data and offset $dataoffset and calls the
         callback without the actual number of bytes read (or -1 on error,
         just like the syscall).
-        If $offset is undefined, then the current file offset will be used
+        If $offset is undefined, then the current file descriptor offset
-        (and updated), otherwise the file offset will not be changed by
+        will be used (and updated), otherwise the file descriptor offset
-        these calls.
+        will not be changed by these calls.
         If $length is undefined in "aio_write", use the remaining length of
         $data.
         If $dataoffset is less than zero, it will be counted from the end of
         Delete a directory tree starting (and including) $path, return the
         status of the final "rmdir" only. This is a composite request that
         uses "aio_scandir" to recurse into and rmdir directories, and unlink
         everything else.
+    aio_sync $callback->($status)
+        Asynchronously call sync and call the callback when finished.
     aio_fsync $fh, $callback->($status)
         Asynchronously call fsync on the given filehandle and call the
         callback with the fsync result code.
     aio_fdatasync $fh, $callback->($status)
         Asynchronously call fdatasync on the given filehandle and call the
         callback with the fdatasync result code.
         If this call isn't available because your OS lacks it or it couldn't
         be detected, it will be emulated by calling "fsync" instead.
+    aio_pathsync $path, $callback->($status)
+        This request tries to open, fsync and close the given path. This is
+        a composite request intended tosync directories after directory
+        operations (E.g. rename). This might not work on all operating
+        systems or have any specific effect, but usually it makes sure that
+        directory changes get written to disc. It works for anything that
+        can be opened for read-only, not just directories.
+        Passes 0 when everything went ok, and -1 on error.
     aio_group $callback->(...)
         This is a very special aio request: Instead of doing something, it
         is a container for other aio requests, which is useful if you want
         to bundle many requests into a single, composite, request with a
        };
     This makes it very easy to create composite requests (see the source of
     "aio_move" for an application) that work and feel like simple requests.
-    * The IO::AIO::GRP objects will be cleaned up during calls to
+    *   The IO::AIO::GRP objects will be cleaned up during calls to
-    "IO::AIO::poll_cb", just like any other request.
+        "IO::AIO::poll_cb", just like any other request.
-    * They can be canceled like any other request. Canceling will cancel not
+    *   They can be canceled like any other request. Canceling will cancel
-    only the request itself, but also all requests it contains.
+        not only the request itself, but also all requests it contains.
-    * They can also can also be added to other IO::AIO::GRP objects.
+    *   They can also can also be added to other IO::AIO::GRP objects.
-    * You must not add requests to a group from within the group callback
+    *   You must not add requests to a group from within the group callback
-    (or any later time).
+        (or any later time).
     Their lifetime, simplified, looks like this: when they are empty, they
     will finish very quickly. If they contain only requests that are in the
     "done" state, they will also finish. Otherwise they will continue to
     exist.
         request itself. Useful when you queued a lot of events but got a
         result early.
     $grp->result (...)
         Set the result value(s) that will be passed to the group callback
-        when all subrequests have finished and set thre groups errno to the
+        when all subrequests have finished and set the groups errno to the
         current value of errno (just like calling "errno" without an error
         number). By default, no argument will be passed and errno is zero.
     $grp->errno ([$errno])
         Sets the group errno value to $errno, or the current value of errno
     $oldmaxreqs = IO::AIO::max_outstanding $maxreqs
         This is a very bad function to use in interactive programs because
         it blocks, and a bad way to reduce concurrency because it is
         inexact: Better use an "aio_group" together with a feed callback.
-        Sets the maximum number of outstanding requests to $nreqs. If you to
+        Sets the maximum number of outstanding requests to $nreqs. If you do
         queue up more than this number of requests, the next call to the
         "poll_cb" (and "poll_some" and other functions calling "poll_cb")
         function will block until the limit is no longer exceeded.
         The default value is very large, so there is no practical limit on
     bytes of memory. In addition, stat requests need a stat buffer (possibly
     a few hundred bytes), readdir requires a result buffer and so on. Perl
     scalars and other data passed into aio requests will also be locked and
     will consume memory till the request has entered the done state.
-    This is now awfully much, so queuing lots of requests is not usually a
+    This is not awfully much, so queuing lots of requests is not usually a
     problem.
     Per-thread usage:
     In the execution phase, some aio requests require more memory for

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Revision 1.29 by root, Wed Apr 16 16:45:30 2008 UTC